[En-Nut-Discussion] About the next beta release

[Thiago A. Corrêa]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Harald Kipp <harald.kipp at egnite.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> recently I made a first try to get Nut/OS built on all supported
> platforms. I finally succeeded after, if I remember correctly, removing
> the LCD driver from the AVR32 build. No big deal.


Actually I've reenabled and fixed the build earlier this week I think.
It has been a couple of days :)

> There are still a few open problems left, like the stack alignment
> problems with Cortex. We should be able to temporarily fix these with
> similar workarounds, right?
>
> I still haven't been able to fix the PROGMEM problem for the 8-bit AVR,
> which looks tricky. If time allows, I'll try again, but currently there
> is no chance. I can still limit the release to the latest AVR toolchain
> and exclude WinAVR support. For beta code this should be acceptable.
>

I had a crack at the PROGMEM problem as well when I first messaged the
list. Since it's a typedef you can't detect with the preprocessor,
unless we use the compiler version for that.

Regards,
     Thiago A. Correa